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I have spent so much time futzing with Emacs this week that I need a break from it. For a minute, anyway.
Finally got around to doing a water change in the fish
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I have an irrational urge to get a 19-inch CRT and a VCR.
I spent several hours changing emacs to startup as a daemon. It turned out to be frustrating, over-complicated, and I
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* STATUS: All-in Linux and Emacs...again
* TODO: Finish staining the deck
* WATCHING: "Nemisis" on Netflix
I love the first day of a new month. I get to print new calendars, review
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To create a post like this one, I run an emacs function to create the markdown file. Then I pick an image to use. Then I run a script on that image to
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* STATUS: Killing time until the deck stain arrives
* TODO: I'm due for a water change in the reef tank. Don't feel like it.
* (Re)Watching: "Running Point"
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* STATUS: Refusing to do chores today
* TODO: Anything but chores
* READING: "Five Decembers" by James Kestrel
* LISTENING: "Fair Warning" - Van Halen
I cleaned and sanded the entire deck
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What if I didn't even have a computer? Wouldn't that be something?
"What is the point of this?" is a question I've been asking myself,
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I've been having so much fun playing with software that I've accidentally over-complicated everything. Again. Time to dial it back. Again.
I'm re-staining the deck and it&
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Today, I feel like using Ghost. Tomorrow? Who knows?
I've been having so much fun the past few days with computers. I had some new ideas and installed some new software
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It's getting to the point where many of the blog posts I read all say the same things. Whether it's about A.I. being good/evil, how everything is
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I made a few improvements to the home page layout. Earlier attempts at distinguishing post types only made things worse and more cluttered. Now, spacing and typography is similar for all types. I
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I changed the body font here to Instrument Sans. For some reason, I find that serif fonts in blog posts feel pretentious. It's not me.
I asked Claude Code to convert
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My film arrived today. I ordered 10 rolls of Tri-X because it was cheaper than HP5 and that was new to me. I also ordered 5 rolls of ColorPlus for some reason. Probably
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One day I'm tweaking things over at baty.net, thinking I should live there for everything. The next day I'm here in Ghost and loving how comfortable it is
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This morning started off as another "Emacs tripped me up again so I should use something else." mood. It passed, because everything else is worse in more ways.
I don'
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I get a lot of newsletters, the traditional way, via email. Those newsletters often contain links to interesting things. Unfortunately, people love metrics, causing many of those newsletters to obfuscate the URLs with
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I gotta start bugging Claude Code to help me make adding images here easier, before I'm sucked backed into Ghost.
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